Old or Young???

Is she old or young?

Let's play a funny game. Look at the picture obove in detail. What can you see ? An old woman? Are you sure you don't see anything more? Try again , come on. Maybe you can see a smart young woman too.

If you can only can see the old woman, think her nose could be the young woman's cheek and chin. And the wart on the nose of the old woman could be the nose of the young one. If you look in detail, you will see the mouth of the old woman becomes a beautiful necklace the young woman is wearing.

Psychologists call this “Perceptual investment”.This picture was created by a cartoonist called W.E.Hill on 1915 and it was studied by a psychologist , Dr Boring on 1930. He says , when we look at a picture , our brain groups the elements that apear there according to principles of organization. There are ambiguous drawings like this one that make the brain confused. Depending on the elements we group , our brain sees one thing or another.

F.C. BARCELONA

It's Sunday, Barça football club plays in Barcelona , in the Camp Nou at 17:00. This is the best hour to go to the stadium because I 'm going to be back home early. We are leaders and we are playing a good football , the people are expecting to win again and still be the leaders of the Spanish football league.

I love going to see Barça playing. It's a kind of a ritual. I eat with my entire family like all Sundays, when we finish eating we stay all together talking. About 16:00 hour, I have a metting with some friends, Barça's members like me. We take the underground to go to the stadium. I like seeing all the different kind of people going to the stadium. You can see people of all ages, from all social classes, from everywere.

I see a grandfather with his grandson who seems to be very excited, this might be his first time going to a football match, he's wearing a scarf with the Barça's logo. The grandfather is telling stories about F.C. Barcelona's football players who were stars in the 50's. I see a pair of sweethearts, I think she has given two tickets for the Barça as a present , it maybe is his birthday or they are celebrating something. There is also an entire family beside me. A woman and her husband and their two sons enveloped with big coats and warmed with two woollen hats and woollen gloves with Barça's logo.

In front of me there is a man , very well dressed, he seems to be worried. He might be thinking about his Barça and the difficult match it's going to be today. Behind him there are two a men seated they seem to work in a kind of manual job, they have big hands , damaged for the hard work. They are discussing about the best strategy to win the team that plays against Barça today.

All these people, my friends and I are going to see what Barça does today. We are going to scream , to suffer , to enjoy seeing our favorite football team. For an hour and a half we are going to leave our problems aside and we all are going to think about Barça's victory. We'll see what happens...

Barack Obama

First of all I must say that I prefered Obama to be the president of the United States than Mc Cain. I think Obama’s eleccion means a lot about the change that is making civil society in America. Many journalist were talking about the hidden racist vote, and the possibility of some surprises in the election nigth. Finally the forecasts were wright and Obama won the eleccions. I think Mc Cain represents the conservatism and the continuation of the Bush’s policies. Republicans don’t want to recognise the homosexual rights and they are against abortion. This ideas of the republican party are shared by the vast majority of the deep America.

Having said that I think in Europe and in the rest of the world everybody have put too many expectations in Obama. It can be dangerous because I’m not sure he is going to be able to make the big change we all are expecting. For exemple , all the companies and lobby’s who has given money to help Obama’s election campaign now will ask him to give them some “favors”. No politician is free from all that kind of preasures and they are not free to make all what they want to. And more in the States, where the politician campaing is very expensive and the financial contributions are crucial to win the elections.

Another problem for Obama will be the Irak war. During the campaign, he said the troops were going to be back home if he became the president of the United States. We'll if it is true and all the aerican forces in Irak will be back home or they continue with the Irak ocupation.

The financial crisis in the United States and in the rest of the world is another big problem he has. Everybody is waiting for the magic solution but I think it will be more complicated to solve than we think.

We'll see what happens, and if the big expectation Obama has created is certain and everything changes for the better.

QUÈ El nou musical

Last Sunday I went to a musical that is taking place in Barcelona, called “ Què, el nou musical”.Directed by Àngel Llàcer and Manu Guix, this musical talks about the story of five young people ( underage) who have problems with justice. They are addmited to a rehabilitation program directed by a young man called Josep. (is his first experience in a rehabilitation program like this).The mission of the tutor Josep, is to teach values to the kids. The 5 kids are very problematic because of that, they don't have any respect to the authority.

There is one kid called Moha who had problems with the justice because he was arrested for stealing from a shop. Another one called Angel who was arrested for drug trafficking. Another one who was in a racist gang. And two girls. Susana, who had problems with the justice for stealing in fashion shops. And finally Irene who has psychological problems

The tutor suggest them to make some activities to make them change their bad habits and bad behavior, but they don't obey. They don't want any adult to say them what they have or they don't have to do. In the middle of the therapy the tutor Josep realises, that the key is to make the kids decide what kind of activities they want to do to improve in their values.

I'm not going to say you who the musical ends , you better go and see it yourselves. I only can say you that there are some dramatic situations, some romantic situations and also there are moments that the public laughs.

I have to say that I went to see this musical with some doubts about it's quality. Some people had told me it wasn't a good musical. To be honest it is not a big big production with famous actors or musicians. But I think this is a nice musical to go. The actors are young and they transmit all the energy they have to the people. I must say I enjoyed it. The music and the story are pretty good. And I think that shows like this one , with young actors and young creators must have the support of the public.